circular function

Questions about circular function

What does circular function mean?

circular function means "function of an angle expressed as a ratio of the length of the sides of right-angled triangle containing the angle".

What is another word for circular function?

Close synonyms include trigonometric function. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is circular function a common word?

circular function is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.